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Critoph, Robert E. and Pacho, Angeles M. Rivero (2022) District heating of buildings by renewable energy using thermochemical heat transmission. Energies, 15 (4). e1449. doi:10.3390/en15041449 ISSN 1996-1073.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/en15041449
Abstract
The decarbonisation of building heating in urban areas can be achieved by heat pumps connected to district heating networks. These could be ‘third-generation’ (85/75 °C), ‘fourth-generation’ (50/40 or 50/25 °C) or ‘fifth-generation’ (near ambient) water loops. Networks using thermochemical reactions should require smaller pipe diameters than water systems and be more economic. This work investigates thermochemical transmission systems based on liquid−gas absorption intended for application in urban district heating networks where the main heat source might be a MW scale heat pump. Previous studies of absorption for heat transmission have concentrated on long distance (e.g., 50 km) transmission of heat or cold utilizing waste heat from power stations or similar but these are not directly applicable to our application which has not been investigated before. Absorbent-refrigerant pairs are modelled using water, methanol and acetone as absorbates. Thermodynamic properties are obtained from the literature and modelling carried out using thermodynamic analysis very similar to that employed for absorption heat pumps or chillers. The pairs with the best performance (efficiency and power density) both for ambient loop (fifth-generation) and high temperature (fourth-generation) networks use water pairs. The next best pairs use methanol as a refrigerant. Methanol has the advantage of being usable at ambient temperatures below 0 °C. Of the water-based pairs, water−NaOH is good for ambient temperature loops, reducing pipe size by 75%. Specifically, in an ambient loop, heat losses are typically less than 5% and the heat transferred per volume of pumped fluid can be 30 times that of a pumped water network with 10 K temperature change. For high temperature networks the heat losses can reach 30% and the power density is 4 times that of water. The limitation with water−NaOH is the low evaporating temperature when ambient air is the heat source. Other water pairs perform better but use lithium compounds which are prohibitively expensive. For high temperature networks, a few water- and methanol-based pairs may be used, but their performance is lower and may be unattractive.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TH Building construction T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > Engineering | ||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Heat pumps, Heat pumps -- Thermodynamics, Heating -- Equipment and supplies -- Design and construction, Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation, Heating from central stations, Steam power plants, Renewable energy sources, Sustainable buildings -- Design and construction | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Energies | ||||||
| Publisher: | MDPI | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1996-1073 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 16 February 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 15 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| Article Number: | e1449 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.3390/en15041449 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 March 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 March 2022 | ||||||
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